Background surface thresholding

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6577762
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09427833

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A thresholding technique for generating a background image of a pixmap image is described. For one embodiment of the present invention, background image is used to generate a background threshold surface for thresholding a pixmap image. For another embodiment of the present invention, the background image is used to normalize the background of the pixmap image. In yet another embodiment of the present invention, the background image is used as input for other image processing algorithms such as extracting features from a grey-scale image for character recognition.

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XEROX CORPORATION45 GLOVER AVENUE P O BOX 4505 NORWALK CT 06856-4505

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Dance, Christopher R Trumpington, GB 48 2369
Seeger, Mauritius Royston, GB 14 840

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